My great-grandfather spent what looks like 13 yrs in the Dayton State Insane Asylum. I rec'd his records in the mail a few days ago. They are missing the later year records which would show when his actual discharge was. From the records I rec'd, it looks like he went on trial visits for a few months at a time. Each trial visit was a discharge and then a readmission. The last discharge was for 1927, but I do not know if that was his final discharge. I cannot find him there on the 1930 census, so he either died sometime between 1927-1930, or he left on his own accord. I can't find him on the 1930 census anywhere. He evidentally had some contact with his son, who was raised in an orphanage, because the records indicate an address of his son in Detroit and that son didn't move to Detroit until 1925. I was sent a death cert for a Mike Printz who died in Cuyahoga Co, Oh, but this is not my Mihaly Sprencz. The name was very often interchanged between Sprencz and Princz/Printz. He is not buried at the Calvary Cemetary in the family plot with his brother, who he was so close to. He was not buried at the insane asylum cemetery. He was not living with his son in 1930. So, where did he go? Would he have gone back to Hungary? I thought for sure these newest records would give me some clues as to his whereabouts, but it's only generated more unanswered questions. PS. Mihaly's records indicate that he had seen a fortune teller, and what she/he told him weighed heavy on his mind and was the reason for his admission to the insane asylum. Was this sort of thing popular in Hungary? Believing in fortune tellers? Any ideas? Anne